Marisu's Notes on the Investigation into the murder of the former Ambassador Waverlyn

Notes:

• Ambassador Waverlyn was stabbed, poisoned, and then burned, according to Phillipe and the priests he consulted.
  • Cannot determine who did it.
    • Protected from scrying somehow?
• Ambassador was the author of the new Kayugan crusade against the Greeks, to point the church east to the Greeks rather than into Drillian.

Circumstances:

1. Joseph found the body stabbed, and ran to it.
2. Atribella ran to fetch Phillipe
3. "Whoosh" of flame
4. Phillipe and Joseph pulled an arm and a leg, and a dagger fell out of the body.
   1. Ambassador Waverlyn did not like weapons. They were for the feeble-minded.
5. They could not put out the fire in time and had to run.
6. The mansion and body all burned in the fire.
   1. "... and the entire house seemed to catch fire all at once." - Phillipe
7. According to the Priest consulted (name?), Ambassador Waverlyn was poisoned.
   1. Priests also confirmed that Joseph neither stabbed nor poisoned Ambassador Waverlyn.
8. House was under a Guardian spell that prevented teleportation.
   1. Cast by an apprentice of the Necromancer. (name?)

Thoughts:

• Killer:
  • How can someone be protected from detection? This might provide clues to the murderer, if only a few can do it.
    • According to Midguard, the killer might have used a duplicate to confuse scrying.
  • How did the killer(s) get into the mansion?
• Murder:
  • Why three murder methods?
  • Maybe the dagger was poisoned, so only a scratch was necessary, and the fire was to cover the crime? Therefore neither the dagger nor the fire killed her, the poison did?
  • We should find out who Ambassador Waverlyn saw or spoke to within the week before she died.
• Dagger:
  • Was the dagger part of the killing? Was she actually stabbed, or was it merely near or on the body?
• Poison:
  • What kind of poison was it?
• Fire:
  • How was the fire set? Regular fire, or magic? If magic, how did the staff survive to escape? Fireball would have killed them too.
  • Could Joseph have caused the fire, either on purpose or accidentally?
• Witnesses:
  • Phillipe
  • Atribella
  • Joseph
    • Phillipe checked, and the priests said that Joseph didn't stab or poison the Ambassador. But nothing was said about fire.
  • Guards?

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